Category A
Why would lions die off if there was no plants.
Animals that lions eat, such as deer, eat plants and if there were no plants deer would die, so lions would starve.
True or False. A plant cannot be a consumer.
False a venus flytrap is a consumer because it eats (consumes) insects.
What do we call a human that is an herbivore.
A vegetarian.
A cheeseburger has lettuce which is a plant, and burger which has meat.
___________ make their own food by getting their energy from the sun.
Producers.
A cat is a __________ because it does not eat any plants.
Carnivore.
Decomposers broke down the dead squirrels body.
In the morning a student saw a possum eating through their neighbor's trash. Would this make the possum an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore?
An omnivore since trash consists of all types of food.
What two things do all plants need to survive?
Sunlight and water.
_______ shows how animals are connected to in an ecosystem by showing multiple things an animal consumes.
Food web
________ shows a straight path how energy is passed from a producer, to a consumer, and finally to a decomposer.
Food chain
Put these in the correct food chain order.
Mushrooms --> Sun --> Hawk --> Lettuce --> Rabbit
Sun --> Lettuce --> Rabbit --> Hawk --> Mushrooms
What would happen if there were no decomposers?
There would be dead animals all over the planet.
Name three animals that are carnivores and three animals that are herbivores.
Rabbit, Deer, Giraffe -- Herbivores
Any living thing that has a mouth is a producer or consumer. Explain.
A consumer, because a consumer must eat their own food it cannot create it inside its body like a producer can.
Owls come out at night. If there was no sun why would owls not survive.
Owls eat animals that eat plants and plants need sunlight to grow. If there were no plants the owls would die from hunger.